As long as capitalism reigns, the earth and the 99 percent are fucked.
It's pretty upsetting the sort of destruction of diversity that's going on.. And unless you're enthusiastic and knowledgeable about nature, you're not going to see it as a real problem and understand the scope of it.
Some of the most well known and beloved animal species have populations collapsing with as little as 10 - 1000 individuals alive in the wild. Meanwhile, there are 7 billion humans living and polluting everywhere in the planet. Just dividing a forest in two with a highway is enough to disrupt and destroy some animal species.
People like to think other animals live in small box of a territory, like humans do, but that's simply not true.
I believe we have an ultimatum. We either continue as normal and destroy everything to the point where the only survivors will be animals that can adapt to human environments (rats, cockroaches, other pests) or we let wild nature exist again, and put us and our destructive forces behind walls, fences, and bubbles.
Clearly modern human civilization can't function in the natural world without inadvertently destroying it.. Human populations are grossly out of control. It really disgusts me that corporations catch wild fish, for example, and sell them to every grocery store in the US. That's outrageous.. How the fuck is that considered okay? Farm your own fucking fish. Stop dicking around in the precious wild.
This Earth would be far better off with a human species that stayed in one spot, specialized for a specific environment like most animals. As awesome as human enterprise and pioneering is, it's so far out of control it's not even possible to reverse this damage.
I think we would need to turn back the clock to prehistory when there were maybe several hundred thousand humans or a couple million at most, before any damage could be said to have been done. I mean, it really is waay too late. As long as humans feel the need to occupy every crevice, every ecosystem, destruction is imminent.
I wish we could round up all humans, sort them into the top 5 human territories, then give the rest back to nature, permanent wild zones where people simply aren't allowed to live, and if they are, they must live off the land for themselves or their group, which is required by Earth law to stay within a few dozen people.
They can roam and intermingle with other groups, but no vehicles, no chemicals, etc. pre-industry in these 'wild zones''.
I'm talking about giving at least 50 percent of currently occupied human territory back to the whim and forces of nature, and the civilizations within the human territories would have to exercise restraint for once in their history.
We need government to step in and set legal boundaries, because no one else has the will or power to protect the earth from our own destruction.
The sooner we can have an Earth Federation run by a democratic panel of scientists, the better.
